The interior of the 2018 Chevy Tahoe has comfortable front bucket seats.In some Chattanooga suburbs, the Chevy Tahoe SUV is practically the official neighborhood vehicle.
Truck tough but still quiet and comfortable, the Tahoe is a near-perfect family hauler. Still, the price can be pretty dear and it tends to chug gas in stop-and-go driving.
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The Tahoe, a cousin of the GMC Yukon, is essentially a Chevy truck which has been framed-in with sheet metal and equipped with a compact, third-row seat. My skinny, 11-year-old son found the “way-back” quite comfortable, but it would be arduous for me to drag my middle-age body into the third row. In fact, I’m not sure it would even be possible.
That said, I found the front bucket seats to be supremely comfortable on a jaunt to a kids’ soccer game up the road in Cleveland, Tenn. There is something about these vehicles that makes them magnetically attracted to soccer pitches.
Our tester, a 2018 Tahoe FWD Premier model, has been upgraded with Chevy’s lush and powerful 6.2-liter V-8 engine that makes 420 horsepower. A second V-8, with a more modest 5.3-liters of displacement, is standard fare on most Tahoes.